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Forced Polling on Non Up/Up Interfaces

This may have been brought up before, but we have another vendor that has made interfaces that are passing traffic something other than up/up.

Here is a quote from Juniper: If the interface don't have any IP address assignement the admin status will be reported as down and the operatrional status of the interface, which has the physical status UP will be "testing" what you have seen in your setup is expected behaviour

So lets have the option in System Manager/Interface Details to force an interface to be polled and graphed if that interface is anything other than up/up, perhaps a nice check box.

We have to monitor all our up/down and now down/testing interfaces with MRTG. Its not a huge problem but it is a shame Soalrwinds can't be forced to do this.

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NasaGeek

I found out that Juniper is going to fix this down/testing issue. That indeed it should not have been "expected behavior". However, we still have the Cisco SPAN ports that report as Up/Down.

I have seen other posts where people would like this feature.

Any response from a Solarwinds Employee would be appreciated.

NasaGeek

Bounce.

I am calling support today to ask for this feature and comment on the lack of response from the employees on this forum.

FormerMember

Sorry I didn't reply specifically to your message previously, but I've already captured your request and added to the queue. It's not something we've been asked for before, but it's a good suggestion.

NasaGeek

Thank you. It is a good feature that gives the users much more control.

I do like the behavior to automatically not monitor "down" interfaces. The automation this provides is invaluable, but to add this control would make Orion that much more powerful, and would allow us to monitor interfaces like the Cisco SPAN ports.

FormerMember

Our new custom poller will monitor down interfaces, so there will be a workaround in 9.0.